Henry Rollins: Diving Off the Jersey Shore (LA Weekly)
A few days ago I was at the Jersey Shore. It was evening, and I had a few hours for sleep before my 0430 wake-up call, for a dive class that would allow me to go deeper than I was certified for.
Mark Morford: #Not All Conservative White Guys (SF Gate)
Now here's a cherished lament, a shockingly obvious statement that, nevertheless, most liberal writers like me apparently fail to acknowledge whenever I decry the latest moral or social abomination from the right, or the church, or the NRA, or Texas, or Koch Industries or Monsanto or crazed fans of Doritos Locos Tacos, et al. Do you recognize it?
J.F. Sargent: 4 Organizations That Screw the People They Claim to Help (Cracked)
One of the worst of these hellish cephalopods is Grassroots Campaigns Inc., a company that's found a niche as the middleman between nonprofits and idealistic college kids. And once it settled into that niche, it did what squids always do: stole everyone's money.
100 Amazing Bass Lines (YouTube)
I chose and played 100 Great and Famous Bass Lines (Medley!) which, in my opinion, every bass player should know! These bass lines helped me during those years to improve my playing and also to have fun.
George Richard Chamberlain (born March 31, 1934) is an American stage and screen actor and singer, who became a teen idol in the title role of the television show Dr. Kildare (1961-6).
Since then, he has appeared in several mini-series such as Sh?gun (1980) and The Thorn Birds (1983), many successful films, performed classical stage roles and worked in the musical theatre.
Chamberlain later appeared in several popular television miniseries (earning him a nickname of "King of the Miniseries"), including Centennial (1978-79), Sh?gun (1980), and The Thorn Birds (1983) as Father Ralph de Bricassart with Rachel Ward and Barbara Stanwyck co-starring. In the 1980s, he appeared as leading man with King Solomon's Mines (1985) opposite newcomer Sharon Stone, and also played Jason Bourne in the television film version of The Bourne Identity (1988).
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Alan J was first, and correct, with:
Richard Chamberlain
Charlie wrote:
Richard Chamberlain, for such as The Thorn birds and Shogun, though he is also remembered as Dr. Kildare.
Adam answered:
Richard Chamberlain.
Marian said:
Richard Chamberlain
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
Richard Chamberlain
Deborah replied:
I think it's Richard Chamberlain, who I first knew as "Dr. Kildare." He was so dreamy!
Lois Of The Fag Hags In Oregon said:
Continuing with "80 Year Old Starlet" Week, FINALLY, one for
the ladies. I remember Richard Chamberlain, AKA The Queen Of
The Miniseries. Boy, were we surprised to learn he was
playing for the other side. Who would have thought him AND
Rock Hudson AND Liberace! So many broken hearts. Thank god
everyone's out now, so to save little girls from confusion.
Dynamos Dale o' Diamond Springs, Norcali, replied:
Richard Chamberlain in the late 1970s and early 1980s, became "The King of the Miniseries," starring in vast made-for-tv epics set in exotic locales, usually as an outsider trying to understand more alien cultures, with more homoromantic subtexts. Got this from a gay man's website. In the miniseries "Centennial" a homoromantic friendship between a French trapper, Pasquinel (Robert Conrad) and Scotsman Alexander McKeag (Richard), who triangulate their romance by falling in love with the same woman. Wow, Robert Conrad (the self-proclaimed Emperor of Bear Valley, CA) as any kind of homo anything, he'll knock your block off. He has a hard on for girlie men? I met him at an Arts Festival in Bear Valley about 20 years ago. A very obnoxious little person he was (maybe 5'6" at the most).
Lois…Your sanity is erotically esoteric stimulation to a badger's epicurean desires!
mj answered:
Little late today
Got started early on a hike. 4.5 hours turned out more like 6.5.
The king is Richard Chamberlain.
DJ Useo responded:
Wow, am I surprised I know this, but it's Richard Chamberlin.
I liked him best in SHOGUN. I missed seeing THE THORNBIRDS.
MAM wrote:
Richard Chamberlain ~ With 7 that I can think of:
Dr. Kildare 1961 - 1966
The Count of Monte Cristo 1975
Centennial 1978 -79
Sh?gun 1980
The Thorn Birds 1983
King Solomon's Mines 1985
The Bourne Identity 1988
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CBS opens the night with a RERUN'Big Bang Theory', followed by a RERUN'The Millers', then a FRESH'Big Brother', followed by a RERUN'Elementary'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Colin Firth, Tommy Johnagin, and St. Vincent.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Julia Ormond and Dan Riskin.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'Hollywood Game Night', followed by a FRESH'Welcome To Sweden', then a FRESH'Working The Engels', followed by a FRESH'Last Comic Standing'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are John Lithgow, Miranda Kerr, and Jason Mraz.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are Julie Bowen, Brett Ratner, and Ben Kronberg.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 4/28/14) are Dave Attell and You Won't.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'Black Box', followed by a FRESH'Rookie Blue', then a FRESH'NY Med'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel (from 7/1/14) are Dane Cook, Mark Duplass, and Trey Songz.
The CW offers a RERUN'The Vampire Diaries', followed by the RERUN'The Originals'.
On a RERUNArsenio Hall (from 1/21/14) are Michael K. Williams, Kenya Moore, and Sky Blu.
Faux has a FRESH'Hell's Kitchen', followed by a FRESH'Gang Related'.
MY recycles an old 'House', followed by another old 'House'.
A&E has 'The First 48', another 'The First 48', followed by a FRESH'The First 48', then a FRESH'Beyond Scared Straight'.
AMC offers the movie 'Tremors', followed by the movie 'Tremors II: Aftershock', then the movie 'Tremors 3: Back To Perfection'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[7:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[8:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 3 - Ep 11 - Utopia
[9:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 3 - Ep 12 - The Sound Of Drums
[10:00AM] ATLANTIS - Season 1 - Episode 9
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 5 - Ep 15 - Power Play
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 5 - Ep 16 - Ethics
[1:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 2 - Ep 7 - Oscars
[2:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 6 - Ep 3 - Mama Maria's
[3:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 6 - Ep 8 - Sam's Mediterranean Kabob Room
[4:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 16 - Episode 6
[5:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 17 - Episode 1
[6:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 2 - Ep 11 - Cafe 36
[7:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 2 - Ep 12 - Casa Roma
[8:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 12 - Charlie's
[9:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 13 - Cafe Hon
[10:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 14 - Chiarella's
[11:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 12 - Charlie's
[12:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 13 - Cafe Hon
[1:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 14 - Chiarella's
[2:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 2 - Ep 11 - Cafe 36
[3:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 2 - Ep 12 - Casa Roma
[4:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 16 - Episode 6
[5:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 17 - Episode 1 (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Married To Medicine', followed by a FRESH'Married To Medicine', then a FRESH'Don't Be Tardy', 'Married To Medicine', and 'Don't Be Tardy'.
Comedy Central has last night's 'Colbert Report', last night's 'Jon Stewart', 'Chappelle's Show', 'It's Always Sunny In Philly', another 'It's Always Sunny In Philly', 'Tosh.0', another 'Tosh.0', and still another 'Tosh.0'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart Emma Stone.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report Steven Wise.
FX has the movie 'The Other Guys', followed by the movie '21 Jump Street', then a FRESH'Married', followed by a FRESH'You're The Worst'.
History has 'Pawn Stars', another 'Pawn Stars', still another 'Pawn Stars', yet another 'Pawn Stars', followed by a FRESH'Pawn Stars', then another FRESH'Pawn Stars', followed by a FRESH'Pawnography', then another FRESH'Pawnography'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] WHITEST KIDS U'KNOW
[6:15AM] THE THREE STOOGES -GOOFS AND SADDLES
[6:40AM] THE THREE STOOGES -HALF-SHOT SHOOTERS
[7:05AM] THE THREE STOOGES -HALF-WITS HOLIDAY
[7:30AM] BATMAN -THE JOKE'S ON CATWOMAN
[8:00AM] BATMAN -LOUIE'S LETHAL LILAC TIME
[8:30AM] MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE -HAL'S FRIEND
[9:00AM] MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE -GARAGE SALE
[9:30AM] COMEDY BANG! BANG! -JESSICA ALBA WEARS A JACKET WITH PATENT LEATHER PUMPS
[10:00AM] COMEDY BANG! BANG! -RASHIDA JONES WEARS A BLACK BLAZER & FLOWERED PANTS
[10:30AM] COMEDY BANG! BANG! -JIM GAFFIGAN WEARS A BLUE JACKET & PLUM T-SHIRT
[11:00AM] HUDSON HAWK
[1:15PM] THE JACKAL
[4:00PM] BATMAN -TRUE OR FALSE-FACE
[4:30PM] BATMAN -HOLY RAT RACE
[5:00PM] MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE -HAL'S FRIEND
[5:30PM] MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE -GARAGE SALE
[6:00PM] STREET FIGHTER: THE LEGEND OF CHUN-LI
[8:00PM] RAMBO
[10:00PM] MARON -WHITE TRUCK
[10:30PM] COMEDY BANG! BANG! -PATTON OSWALT WEARS A BLACK BLAZER AND DRESS SHOES
[11:00PM] BAD ASS
[1:00AM] MARON -WHITE TRUCK
[1:30AM] COMEDY BANG! BANG! -PATTON OSWALT WEARS A BLACK BLAZER AND DRESS SHOES
[2:00AM] GRINDHOUSE PRESENTS: DEATH PROOF
[4:30AM] MARON -RADIO COWBOY
[5:00AM] MARON -WHITE TRUCK
[5:30AM] COMEDY BANG! BANG! -GILLIAN JACOBS WEARS A RED DRESS WITH SAIL BOATS (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] Love Lust-Heels
[6:15AM] Wimbledon
[8:15AM] Stranger Than Fiction
[10:45AM] Legal Eagles
[1:15PM] Notting Hill
[4:00PM] Dead Ringers
[6:30PM] Firestarter
[9:00PM] Rectify-Act as If
[10:00PM] Law & Order-Terminal
[11:00PM] Law & Order-Thrill
[12:00AM] Rectify-Act as If
[1:00AM] Firestarter
[3:30AM] Urbania
[5:45AM] Love Lust-Love Lust & Street Eats (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Jeepers Creepers II', followed by a FRESH'Defiance', then a FRESH'Dominion', and 'Spartacus: Blood & Sand'.
TBS:
Scheduled on a FRESHConan Jason Segel, Cameron Diaz, Matt Walsh, and "Weird Al" Yankovic.
First Lady Michelle Obama, right, hugs six-time Grammy nominee singer Janelle Monae at the Grammy Museum's Jane Ortner Education Award Luncheon in Los Angeles Wednesday, July, 16, 2014. The first lady says every arts organization in the country should embrace the mission of the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles, which focuses on education.
Photo by Damian Dovarganes
CNN's future path may not necessarily be the same as parent Time Warner's.
Time Warner rebuffed an $80 billion offer from 21st Century Fox earlier this month, both companies disclosed Wednesday, that would have combined the owner of HBO, TNT and Warner Bros. with the owner of FX, Fox and Fox News. Under the terms of the deal, Time Warner's venerable cable-news outlet CNN would likely have been sold off to appease regulators and maintain its competition with 21st's Fox News Channel, according to a report in The New York Times.
Talk of a deal for now is moot, 21st Century Fox chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch is known, however, to take the long view on getting deals done, and, as evidenced by a run up in Time Warner stock, Wall Street clearly believes he could make another try. With that in mind, it's worth considering whether CNN would fit nicely under a rival's roof.
Ripping CNN out of Time Warner would be like carving out a major organ from a living human being. That's because CNN has long contributed a good chunk to Time Warner's operating income (in 2010, analyst James Dix estimated that CNN accounted for about 12% of the figure). CNN not only brings in revenue from advertising, but also from subscriber fees from cable, satellite and telecom distributors; payments from international distribution; and money from local news outlets that pay for use of CNN content.
Jeff Bridges presents the Pat Tillman award for service Olympic sledge hockey player Josh Sweeney at the ESPY Awards at the Nokia Theatre on Wednesday, July 16, 2014, in Los Angeles.
Photo by John Shearer
An atheist cited the freedoms promoted by the Founding Fathers as he delivered the opening invocation Tuesday at a town meeting in a community whose leaders won a U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding the right to start their gatherings with a Christian prayer.
"On July 4, 1776, the 56 men, who pledged their lives to the document that changed the course of history, agreed to the central tenet that, 'Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,'" Dan Courtney said at the monthly meeting of the Greece town board.
A critic of the 5-4 Supreme Court decision, the 52-year-old mechanical engineer went on to say, "this central premise still echoes, however faintly, from the town hall to the white-columned halls of Washington" and is "today, more than ever, under assault."
Courtney applied soon after the ruling in May for an opportunity to deliver the "non-theist" message and the town agreed on Tuesday, the earliest open date.
The court's conservative majority declared the prayers in line with national (Christian) traditions and said the content is not significant as long as the prayers don't denigrate non-Christians or try to win converts. The town argued persons of any faith were welcome to give the invocation.
Pop singer Jennifer Lopez may be thinking life is funny after a group of scientists named a water mite in her honour after discovering a new species near Puerto Rico.
The music of the Bronx, New York-born entertainer who has Puerto Rican roots was a hit with the group while they wrote about their findings, biologist Vladimir Pesic said in an email Wednesday.
"The reason behind the unusual choice of name for the new species is ... simple: J.Lo's songs and videos kept the team in a continuous good mood when writing the manuscript and watching World Cup Soccer 2014," said Pesic, who works at the University of Montenegro.
Pesic calls it a small token of gratitude for the singer of hits such as "Ain't It Funny," ''I Luh Ya Papi," and his personal favourite, "All I Have."
Over the years, scientists have named dozens of organisms after famous people to honour them. Mick Jagger, for example, has a type of trilobite named after him, while one spider was named after Bono and a marine parasite found only in the Caribbean sea was named after Bob Marley.
A helicopter flying over a region of Sibera referred to as the "end of the world," recorded footage of a mysterious, giant crater in the middle of the ground estimated to be 260 feet in diameter.
At first, skeptical observers thought the images must be a fake. After all, it appears to be something out a summer science fiction blockbuster, with the giant hole appearing to descend infinitely below the surface.
But Russian officials confirmed the crater's existence and say they are sending a team of experts to investigate the site located in an area known as the Yamal peninsula. Scientists from the Center for the Study of the Arctic and the Cryosphere Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences plan to take samples from around the scene.
The leading theory is that the crater is actually a natural phenomenon known as a 'pingo.' A pingo, or hydrolaccolith, occurs when ice pushes up from underneath the ground. In this case, climate change may have caused the ice to melt, resulting in a crater where the earth-covered frost once stood.
A former U.S. Navy SEAL testified Wednesday that he saw military sniper Chris Kyle punch former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura in a bar in 2006, providing the most complete account yet backing the version told by Kyle in his best-selling autobiography.
Jeremiah Dinnell testified in federal court as part of Ventura's defamation lawsuit against the estate of the former SEAL and "American Sniper" author, who was killed in Texas last year.
Dinnell, who served in the SEALs for a decade before leaving last year, said he saw Kyle strike Ventura with his right hand at a California bar after Ventura said the SEALs "deserve to lose a few." Dinnell said he watched Ventura fall and get up again.
Dinnell testified that he served in Iraq twice with Kyle and also served one tour in Afghanistan. He said he was friends with Kyle and his widow, Taya Kyle, and had read about half of "American Sniper" but not the three-page section describing the bar incident.
Dinnell said he heard Ventura talking to others on the bar patio and he was "loud and boisterous." He said he heard Ventura "bashing (resident) Bush" and saying that, "We didn't need to be overseas and what we were doing wasn't right."
NFL legend Jim Brown, right, and Monique Brown arrive at the ESPY Awards at the Nokia Theatre on Wednesday, July 16, 2014, in Los Angeles.
Photo by Jordan Strauss
In a scene that could have come from the student film version of Mission Impossible, two staffers for the Michigan Republican Party secretly recorded a June 22 fundraiser for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mark Schauer using spy glasses, but left the memory card.
The Michigan GOP confirmed Wednesday that the organization sent staffers Kyle Anderson and Natalie Collins to the private fundraiser to videotape the candidate, something their communications director Darren Littell, defended.
Collins, a regional press secretary for the Michigan GOP, was wearing glasses with a camera hidden in the frame. A disk containing the footage was later found on the floor after a July 8 Oakland County Democratic Party meeting at Farmington Hills Collins may have attended.
The video shows Collins and Anderson walking through the event with Collins complaining to Anderson about being photographed while eating pineapple, commenting that the fundraiser's Bloomfield Hills home is "very 80's" and responding to a question from Democratic running mate Lisa Brown as to why Anderson isn't in student government by saying, "he lives that frat life." Schauer's people repurposed the video and slapped it up on YouTube, letting the pieces fall where they may.
Indian actor Kangana Ranaut displays a dress created by Indian designer Anju Modi at the India Couture Week, held by Fashion Design Council of India, in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, July 16, 2014.
Photo by Saurabh Das
A Romanian princess and her husband pleaded guilty on Wednesday to one charge of running an illegal gambling operation for their involvement in a cockfighting ring in rural Oregon.
Irina Walker, 61, daughter of exiled former Romanian King Michael, and her husband John Walker, 68, appeared in federal court in Portland in connection with cockfights they held in Irrigon, Oregon, in 2012 and 2013.
They had originally denied any wrongdoing, but Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephen Peifer said that, under the agreement to change their plea, the couple will sell their ranch and forfeit $200,000 to the government in lieu of incarceration.
The Walkers were originally charged with 12 counts including operating an illegal gaming business, conspiracy and violating the Animal Welfare Act.
A Boeing F/A-18 E/F Super Hornet performs an aerial display during Farnborough International Air Show, Farnborough, England, Wednesday, July 16, 2014.
Photo by Sang Tan
Former Nepalese crown prince Paras Shah has been arrested on drugs charges in Thailand for a second time and could face up to five years in prison, police said Wednesday.
Shah was detained with about 13 grams (0.5 ounces) of marijuana at a hotel in Bangkok, according to an officer at Thonglor police station who did not want to be named.
"He borrowed a flash drive from hotel security and when the security guard entered his room to get his flash drive back he saw marijuana on the counter so he told police," the officer told AFP.
Shah became heir to the throne in 2001 after his cousin Crown Prince Dipendra killed nine members of his family including the king and queen in a drink-and-drugs-fuelled rampage, before apparently turning his gun on himself.
A woman climbs on "Grope Mountain", a climbing wall where the foot- and hand-holds are sex organs, at the exhibition "Funland: Pleasures & Perils of the Erotic Fairground" at the Museum of Sex in New York July 16, 2014. The exhibition consists of an art installation by renowned London-based conceptual artist duo Bompas & Parr, and features a selection of carnival attractions with sexual subtexts.
Photo by Shannon Stapleton
A Japanese artist who made figures of Lady Gaga and a kayak modeled on her vagina said on Wednesday from jail she was "outraged" by her arrest and vowed a court fight against obscenity charges.
Megumi Igarashi, 42, says she was challenging a culture of "discrimination" against discussion of the vagina in Japanese society.
Igarashi, who worked under the alias Rokudenashiko, which means "good-for-nothing girl" in Japanese, built a yellow kayak with a top shaped like her vagina after raising about $10,000 through crowdfunding.
Igarashi sent 3D printer data of her scanned vagina - the digital basis for her kayak project - as a thanks to a number of donors.
She was arrested for distributing indecent material on Saturday and faces up to two years in prison and a fine of up to $25,000.
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